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ANGOLA â Prosthetics can be a blessing for people who are missing a limb, but theyâre also very expensive.
That expense can make them impractical for children and adolescents who are constantly growing and changing. However, a senior design group of Trine University engineering majors completed a project this year that provided solutions for two teenage girls born without left hands.
With support from the Kosciusko County Community Foundationâs Helping Hands Fund, the team of Marissa Shaver, a biomedical engineering major from Fostoria, Ohio, Ben Avey, a mechanical engineering major from Pendleton, David Cervera, a biomedical engineering major from South Bend and Karina Bruce, a biomedical engineering major from Findlay, Ohio, designed low-cost prosthetics that will allow the girls to perform routine tasks such as curling their hair.
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Shirley Flaats usually helps people in and around Glencoe with job searches, resumes and basic computer skills.
The last few weeks, she’s added vaccine hunting.
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Flaats wears many hats at the Quest Centre, a non-profit community resource centre in the rural Middlesex County community west of London. Her title is client experience facilitator, but she said that’s everything from bookkeeper to dishwasher.
Her focus recently has been on booking vaccine appointments at the London and Mt. Brydges mass vaccination centres. “We’re getting a lot of people needing help,” she said.